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Wow...TIL Microsoft had retail stores.
by jaybeeayyy 6y ago
Wow...TIL Microsoft had retail stores.
- neilsimp1 6y agoSame. Wondering if it is a regional thing? Never in my life have I heard of or seen a Microsoft store.
- blntechie 6y agoThey were almost in every major US city or their suburbs I think. In suburbs, they were predominantly in malls.
- WorldMaker 6y agoPretty much every US city with an Apple Store had at least the mall kiosk version of the Microsoft Store, almost always within earshot or horizon distance from the Apple Store "coincidentally".
- jodrellblank 6y agoWhy “coincidentally” in scare quotes? If one company is going to open an electronics store, they will put it where it is accessible to the most possible customers. If another company wants to open one they can either put it in the same place for the same reason - and now there are customers who go to that region to buy that kind of goods making it more desirable - or they can put it somewhere else where it is accessible to fewer customers, and that’s a silly decision.
- WorldMaker 6y agoNot so much "scare quotes" as "wink, wink" quotes, somewhere between a joke and reality. Some of it was documented as intentional. The one specific one I know was that Microsoft was said very explicitly in location scouting in New York that their NYC store needed to be close the Apple Store. Anecdotally, my city has two malls on the same side of the same street with an interstate in between them (and today owned by the same management company even). Apple for various reasons chose the smaller of the two with less overall foot traffic. Microsoft could have gone to the mall with more foot traffic, but didn't. While anecdotes are not proof, it is amusing sign.